Scenario City

Mr Cadbury is waiting for his train at the station. He feels a little peckish so goes to purchase a Mars bar from the vending machine. The Mars bar costs 50p, which is what he puts in and selects the corret button. The chocolate bar gets stuck on its way out so he decides to give it a shake, however a Galaxy falls out instead (valued at 60p) which he takes and walks off. Has an offence been committed? If yes, what if the same happened the previous day, yet he only recieved an item worth 40p when shaking it? The vending machine would technically owe him 10p? Ignore any cases of possible crim dam if the machine is damaged and just focus on theft / miss-appropriat…

You are on uniform foot patrol in a street which has nose in on street parking with no restrictions. You are stopped by a motorist who has parked her car in one of the bays, she has returned to her car to find that someone has parked across the bay blocking her in. A quick check of the car leads you to a local resident who admits blocking her in as he's fed up with people parking in 'his' space meaning he needs to walk a distance from his car to his home. How do you deal with it. Also can you say which country you police in as there may be differences. Kris

A problem I was told about (I don't know how it was resolved, if at all): A six y/o has his bike taken from him by another six y/o. The victim's mother is told to - off by the other boy's parents when she asks for the return of the bike. The bike is believed to be stored in the offender's house. It's got security markings so that it can be identified. What police action, if any, is appropriate in terms of returning the bike to the victim, and handling the offender? Are the offender's parents liable (either in criminal or civil law)?

Hi All, Just doing some revision for specials training and trying to get my head around the Necessity test/ Sec 24 PACE - Ive been looking into it and obviously there is a lot of situations when a crime may have been commited but the circumstances may dictate if arresting is the best option. If I give you a list of incidents/offences/scenarios, could anyone give their thoughts on how you would deal and if you would arrest and under which part of the necessity test. e.g not just 'Prompt and effective investigation of the offence' but also what investigations are needed to be done, which makes the arrest necessary. Scenario: Whilst Police Officers are trying to seize…

Hi guys, something I have come across on duty ... On foot patrol and want to do a s1 search on someone (with grounds, fully explained etc.) The person is very resistant and not happy about it, I'm sure you all know the type, eventually the search is carried out compliantly, but the person starts swearing while you are filling out the Stop Search form. They are asked to stop swearing but continue.. this is in a place where members of the public are in earshot and you decide to issue them with a PND (£80 fixed penalty for Section 5.) However they just being to walk off. You have their name and address, what power do we have to detain someone to issue a PND to them. Or is i…

Just say an MOP was arrested for something (minor/major not important) and they refused to give details and are subsequently arrested for that and then they continue to refuse to give details and the fact the detained person is not known to police or on any system/database. The person can not be released without charge nor could they be detained forever (if that makes sense) so what could you do? ?

Hi, I'm doing some research for college about runaway teenagers and thought this might be a good place to get some answers. So the situation is a 16 year old teenager has left a note for his parents saying he has decided to runaway, if the parents called Police what would be the standard procedure be? eg: interviews, investigations, appeals etc. Also would the procedure change depending on whether the teenager has been in trouble with the law, has mental health problems/depression, is ill, has written a reason as to why he has ran away etc. Also due to the teenagers age does this cause a problem legally as he may be classed as a 'young man' as to a 13 year old …

Wondered about this one, as I do it almost every week At the end of the road from the bosses office is a crossroads with ATS. At the junction on the road I'm on is a tiny 'island' which houses one of the traffic lights and has an illuminated bollard with a keep left sign on it. When this road is at green, it is only us with this signal, all other routes are at red so there is no on-coming traffic at all and no pedestrian crossing signals etc. The junction is marked with a yellow box and keep clear signs and just to the left on the main road is a multiple bus stop. At least once per week a bus goes through its light on amber and as a bus is already waiting at the bus…

While I was over in Kavos, the bar man at the hotel bar had a little trick he liked to play on people involving a water bottle, toilet cleaner, tin-foil and basic chemistry. The reaction between tin-foil and toilet cleaner would cause the water bottle to explode, creating a loud bang, resulting in people near-by soiling themselfs. What, if any, offences would be committed if he were to do this in England or Wales?

I was reading in today's Metro (free London morning paper) about how a few disgruntled chaps bricked up the doorway of a bank because they were refused a loan. The short article says they dismantled and removed it after police threatened to arrest them. Assuming no damage was actually caused to the property (as appeared to be the case from the picture) what is the offence here?

On foot patrol and you see a group on young people. As you walk over you see then concealing thing that look like bottles and they are not visable when you get to them. You smell alcohol and as such know they have been drinking. Could you search them for it/ask for it...what do you do. What do you do next?

You're on foot patrol near a set of traffic lights at a cross roads. The junction is controlled by the ahead and turn left phase together and then after that a separate filter for drivers wishing to turn right. During the right turn phase you see a driver in the right hand lane go straight on. You are able to stop the driver and speak to them. Do you deal with it as (a) failing to obey the right turn only instruction on the filter light; (b) failing to obey the red light in the ahead/left lane; © report for both and let the court decide; (d) something else?

Imagine you were shopping in a large supermarket and this happened; You had been at the checkout and paid for your shopping however whilst at the checkout you couldnt help over hearing a small group of youths generally being rowdy a few tills down. Obviously a few lads together getting abit over excited by them trying to out testosterone each other. You ignore them and carry on towards the kiosk (to keep up with a filthy habbit of smoking :D ) While at the kiosk one of these lads (whilst showing off to their mates) is walking backwards and barges into your trolley whilst you werent moving. He then pipes up "dont push your trolley into me blud" You dont respond and jus…

In both cases, assume S1 stop and searches are perfectly in order. The hammer is the kind used in emergencies to break glass to gain access to or exit from vehicles/trains etc. 1) Tom has been stopped, late at night/early hours, by the police. There is no immediate evidence to suggest that Tom has done any wrong, but he is found with an emergency hammer on his person. 2) Tom was stopped in an area where criminal damage to car windscreens has been reported, but again there is no immediate evidence to suggest any wrongdoing by Tom.

You arein the back of a taxi and the taxi driver wasn't wearing his belt....... What do you do? a)Inform him he should be wearing it and ID your as a Police officer. b)Inform him he should be wearing it and not ID yourself c)Do nothing It seem to be a commom thing round here most days I see taxi drivers not wearing belts whilst driving